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Genome-wide gene-set analysis for identification of pathways associated with alcohol dependence.
The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology - 1 Mar 2013
Biernacka Joanna M, Geske Jennifer, Jenkins Gregory D, Colby Colin, Rider David N, Karpyak Victor M, Choi Doo-Sup, Fridley Brooke L
Abstract excerpt
It is believed that multiple genetic variants with small individual effects contribute to the risk of alcohol dependence. Such polygenic effects are difficult to detect in genome-wide association studies that test for association of the phenotype with each single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) individually. To overcome this challenge, gene-set analysis (GSA) methods that jointly test for the effects of pre-defined...
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